Croatian Port's Tide May Turn

Rijeka, Hurt by War,
Seeks EU Endorsement
In Bid to Modernize

Like much of Croatia, the port of Rijeka is trying to overcome its turbulent past by looking to the European Union.

Once the main sea outlet for the former Yugoslavia, this port on the Adriatic suffered with the rest of the country during the Balkan war in the early 1990s. Even after the fighting stopped, Croatia's first postwar government drove the country into isolation and failed to modernize the port. Competing ports in Italy and...